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Sina Helbig, MD – Sina received her medical education at the Charite-Universitatsmedizin in Berlin, Germany. She has also trained at the Regionalspital Prattigau Schiers, Teaching Hospital of Universitat Zurich in Switzerland. She completed her residency at Jacobi Medical Center in Bronx, New York (an affiliate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine). She is conversant in German, Spanish, Italian, and other languages. Her primary interest is in global health. Under the mentorship of Dr. Lisa Ganley-Leal, she will be studying the immuno-epidemiology of tuberculosis and helminthic coinfections in Brazil. |
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Eirini Iliaki – Eirini graduated from the University of Crete Medical School. She earned a Masters in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and worked on international and domestic projects with the HSPH and the World Bank. She completed her medical residency training at Cambridge Health Alliance where she also served as chief resident. She is fluent in Greek and conversant in French, Portugese and Spanish. She has prior experience working in developing nations. Her career goal is to combine her passions for clinical medicine, social justice and global health. |
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Dima Kabbani, MD – Dima attended medical school at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and completed residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. Her research interests focus on hospital epidemiology specifically multi-drug resistance and infection control. She will be studying the discordance between strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonizing different body sites and mupirocin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole resistance. The study will be performed at the VABHS with mentorship by Dr. Kalpana Gupta. |
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Jai Marathe, MD - Jai attended medical school at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences from which she graduated as salutatorian and completed residency at St. Mary’s Health Center in St. Louis. She holds a MS degree in Microbiology and Immunology. She has done significant basic research and is committed to working at the bench. For her research, mentored by Dr. Deborah Anderson, she will be studying the interaction of HIV with the vaginal micro-environment and the factors that influence mucosal immunity. |
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Cassandra Pierre, MD - Cassandra received her undergraduate degree in English at Cornell University. She graduated from the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and obtained a Masters of Public Health degree from Loma Linda University. She completed her residency at Boston Medical Center. She is fluent in Haitian Creole. She is interested in global health and underserved populations. She is completing an MSc in Epidemiology at BUSPH as a member of the BU-CHART and CREST programs. She is interested in global health, tuberculosis and HIV. She will be studying tuberculous meningitis in Zambia with Dr. David Hamer as her primary research project. |
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Kinna Thakarar – Kinna received an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed a Master’s in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received her internal medicine training from Cambridge Health Alliance. She has worked in Tanzania and has a strong interest in global health. |
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Paula Valencia-Rey - Paula received her medical education at the University of Antioquia, Colombia. She is currently completing her residency at the Medical College of Georgia (Augusta, Georgia). She is fluent in Spanish. Paula is interested in the epidemiology of infectious diseases in underserved populations. |
